Also known as Reef 965
Where: Italy (43.5° N, 10.4° E: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 10.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Rosignano Limestone Formation, Messinian (7.2 - 5.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone and lithified marl
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: J. P. Chevalier. 1961. Recherches sur les Madreporaires et les formations recifales Miocenes de la Mediterranee occidentale [Miocene corals and reefs from the western Mediterranean]. Memoires de la Societe geologique de France 93:1-562 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 70419: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 22.03.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Florideophyceae | |
Lithothamnion sp. Heydrich 1897 | |
Tubothalamea | |
Foraminifera | |
Globothalamea | |
Discorbis sp. Lamarck 1804 | |
Anthozoa | |
Porites lobatosepta Chevalier 1961 stony coral | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Bivalvia | |
"Chlamys scabrella" = Chlamys scabrellus, Pecten stazzanensis
"Chlamys scabrella" = Chlamys scabrellus Lamarck 1819 scallop
Pecten stazzanensis scallop |